21.   Jack Stoler, a spokesman for The Associated Press, said the company could not distribute footage without a go-ahead from the military.

22.   Last summer, the company distributed prototype chickens for tasting.

23.   Lucent and Nortel have been jockeying to keep and win contracts with the Baby Bells under which the local phone companies distribute their telephone hardware.

24.   Most on-line vendors expect the software and credit card companies to distribute the software free to on-line shoppers.

25.   Mutual insurance companies also distribute dividend payments to policyholders.

26.   Most companies will distribute the notice between September and mid-December.

27.   Officers of several pension funds said Friday they were also unsure what process they would use to determine which companies distribute objectionable songs and which do not.

28.   RealNetworks makes software and other technology that enables companies to distribute various audio and video formats over the Internet.

29.   Schondelmeyer said that when some early AIDS drugs were first approved, the drug companies distributed them through a limited number of mail-order companies.

30.   Ronald Hathaway, chairman of the board of E.A. Hathaway and Company, a southern California construction company distributed copies of Rodgers letter to all his employees.